Irish Flag: 170th Anniversary
Today marks 170 years since the Irish Tricolour was first flown publicly.
It was flown by Irish patriot Thomas Francis Meagher on March 7th 1848 and he said:
“The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between the orange and the green, and I trust that beneath its folds the hands of the Irish protestant and the Irish catholic may be clasped, in generous and heroic brotherhood.”